Rail-anchor.



T. B. BOWMAN.

I RAIL ANCHOR. AQTLIOATION FILED JUNE 3', 1914,

Patented Aug. 18, 1914.

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Application and June were. Serial Ito. atania To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Tnonms B. Bow-v MAN, a citizen of the United States of America and a; resident of Chicago, in'the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail-Anchors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in rail anchors and the object of the invention is to provide a device of this character which may be made of a single malleable casting adapted to be secured to the web of the rail and having one member engaging the base of the rail and a shoe or lug adapted to project below the rail and engage the tie to prevent the rail. from creeping.

The invention, in its preferred embodiment, comprises a single casting adapted to hug part of the base of the rail, with one member extending upwardly alongside of the web of the rail and having an integral locking device or bolt passing through an opening in said web, the castin having a shoe or lug projecting downwardly beneath the rail to contact with the tie, the shoe or lug preferably engaging the tie at some distance beneath the base of the rail.

The invention will be hereinafter more particularly described and then definitely claimed. v

In the drawings accompanying and forming part hereof: Figure 1 is a side elevation of part of a rail having my rail anchorapplied thereto. Fig. 2 is an end elevation o my device applied to a rail, the rail being shown in section. Fig. 3 is a side ele tation of a modified form. Fi t is an end ilevation of the modified form, a plied to the rail being in section. Wig. 5 is a perspective view of theirail anchor shown in Figs. 1 and 2, detached.. f Referringnow to tlie'details of the drawings by numerals l designatesimy rail an.- chor having a horizontally inclined member 2 to co-act With.the upper surface: ofthe" base 3 of {flail a vertical member It projecting upwardiy from said inclined member 2 so as to be substantially parallel with the web 5 of the rail. The vertical member 4: is preferably provided with an integral securing device 6 which is adapted to project through an opening in the web 5 of the rail. This integral securing device is slotted rail,

as indicated at 7 so that its ends may he bent in opposite directions and thus secure the rail anchor to the web of the rail; or a cotter 8 may be passed throughperforations shown in dotted lines at 9 in the projecting end of the securing device 6. The rail anchor extends upwardly against the rail as indicated best in Fig. l and then projects downwardly at some distance to form. a shoe 10. The lower end of the shoe 10 is preferably formed with an offset rilo 12 so that the shoe will contact with a tie at some considerable distance below the lease of the rail so that 1 am enabled to utilize the base of the rail to take the stress of creepago. The shoe 10 is reinforced bymeans of a rib 14; connecting the downwardly projecting shoe 10 with the main part of the casting as clearly shownin Fig. K. At the left hand end of Fig. l is illustrated astrengthening projection 15 which is provided with a short lug l6 projecting transversely of the rail and extending under the same as indicated in the sectional View, F'i T i In Figs- 3 and 4.- is ifiustrated a modification oi'my invention. This construction is also formed of an integral casting"eiii'- bodyi-ng substantially the same features-set forth in Figs. 1 and 2.. However, this modification, the vertical rnernher 2Q which is secured to the weh of the rail is extended upwardly and provided with. a cam snriace 22 which is adaptedto co-actwith the under side of the head of the rail. In this form the point at which the vertical inemher 20 .is seemed to the web of the rail is at one side of the casting as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 3. In this form the lug. 16 of} Fig. 2 may be dispensed with, ifdesircd, for, Y a somewhat equivalent effect is produced by 95 having the cam surface 22 co-act with the under side or; the rail head. I desire to call particular attention to the fact that the part a which enga es the upper side of the bas s of the rail isormed on 'a curved line, as in: too dicated at 24 in Fig. ,3; also the fact that the cam surface 22 hearing on theundorl; surface of the head of therail' is of such curvat'nre that when pressure is exertedo the e of the casting it acts as a'camiincl in ombination with the bearing on the of t e base of the rail a wedge efi'ect i'aprn duced. From the" foregoing and accompanyi drawings it will be seen that. rem p vided a one-piece rail anchor of very sim ple construction and ofilgreat effectiveness in take the stress of the creepage. It'is ab-' I am aware that solutely a'one-piece device.

' various forms of rail anchors have heretoessentially d1 fore been sug ested but I regard hny device erent from any of those heretofore proposed.

VVhatl claim as my invention .is:

1. As a improved article of manufacture a rail an hor comprising a sin le piece 0% material arranged to contact with the base of a rail and having one member projectin u wardly therefrom to co-act with the we% 0 the rail, said member having an integral securing device, and the bottom of the anchor having a shoe or lug projecting downwardly therefrom to bear against the side of a tie and prevent creeping, substantially as described. 2. As an improved article of manufacture, a rail anchor comprising a single piece of material arranged to-contact with the ,base of a rail and having one member projecting upwardly therefrom to co-actwith the web of the rail, said member having an integral securing device, and the bottom of the anchor having'a shoe or lug projecting downwardly therefrom to bear against the side of a tie and prevent creeping, said shoe or lug being formed to contact with the. tie at some distance below the base of. the rail, substantially as described.

3. As animprovedarticle of manufacture,

a railanchor comprising a single piece of material arranged to contact with the base of a rail and having one member upwardly therefrom to co-act wit of the rail, said member having an roj ecting the web integral a rail anc -mater1al arranged .a rail anchor securing device with a split end, and the.

ing, substantially as described.

4. As an hor comprising a sin le piece 0 to contact with the base of a rail and having one member rojecting u wardly therefrom to co-actwitii the web improved article of manufacturei,

o therail, said member having an integral securin device adapted web an a cam shaped upper end arranged to engage with the under surface of the head ofthe rail, and the bottom of the -anchor havin there rom to bear toprevent creeping, scribed.

5. As an improved article of manufacture, comprising a single piece of material arranged to contact with the'base of a rail and having one member projectin upwardly therefrom to co-act with the we against the side of the tie of the rail, said member having an integral securin device adapted to pass through said web an a cam shaped upper end arranged to engage with the under surface of the head of the rail, the part contacting with the base of the rail having a curved surface, and the bottom of the anchor having a shoe or lug projecting downwardly therefrom to bear against the side of the tie to prevent creeping, substantially as described.

f In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses. v

Witnesses: 1 K t A. L. McELHosE, C. E. BEAUDRY MnNsE.

to pass through said substantially as dea shoe or lug projecting downwardly THOMAS, BOWMAN. 

